Editor-in-Chief

James E. Jones attended the University of Kentucky, graduating with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Zoology. He received the D.M.D. degree from the University Of Louisville School Of Dentistry and completed a residency and M.S.D degree in Pediatric Dentistry at the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. In 1987 he became a Robert Wood Johnson Dental Health Services Research Fellow at Harvard University and received a Certificate in Dental Health Services Research from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. From 1989 through 1993 he was Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, at the University Of Tennessee College Of Dentistry. In 1993, he received the Ed.D. from the Indiana University Graduate School of Education.

Dr. Jones was Dean of the School of Health Sciences (1993-2005) at Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne and served as a Congressional Fellow (2000) in the 107th Congress with Senator Richard Lugar. In 2003 he received the Ph.D. degree in Biological Sciences from Empresarial University. He is presently Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Indiana University School of Dentistry.

Dr. Jones has published over 100 articles, book chapters and research abstracts in the dental, medical and education literature and obtained over 6.8 million dollars in educational, service, training and research grants. He has presented lectures in the United States, Caribbean, China, Europe and the Middle East on a variety of topics related to higher education.

Nick Girdler is the Head of the academic and clinical sedation service in Newcastle University. Presently, he is the Professor of Sedation Dentistry and Director of Postgraduate Diploma in Sedation in Dentistry.
He has been an academic consultant in sedation dentistry for 17 years. During that timehe has developed world class research and teaching programmes in sedation and anxiety management. He has won several prizes such as Hunterian Professorship (Royal College of Surgeons of England) in 1995-1996, Shirley Glasstone Huges Prize (British Dental Association) in 1998 and British Society for Oral Medicine Prize in 1995. He has authored/co-authored a number of scientific papers in the field of dentistry.

Research Interest

His research interests are focused in the field of anxiety management and conscious sedation in dentistry. Example:valuating pre-operative dental anxiety, cognitive effects of sedation agents, investigation of new paediatric sedation techniques, complications and morbidity of sedation, seeking alternative sedation techniques to avoid dental general anaesthesia, and clinical trials of new anxiolytic agents

Yoichiro Miyake completed his D.D.S. from Hiroshima University School of Dentistry in 1976 and Ph.D (Oral Microbiology) from Graduate School of Dentistry, Hiroshima University in 1980. Presently, he is Professor at the Department of Oral Microbiology in the Institute of Health Biosciences, Tokushima University Graduate School (2004-present).
He is the member of Japanese Society for Bacteriology, Japanese Association for Oral Biology, Japan Society of Chemotherapy, Japanese Society for Periodontal Research and American Society for Microbiology.
He has authored and co-authored more than 50 papers and several book-chapters over the topics related to oral micro-biology.